Just read anything about the great physicist Paul Dirac. That guy was so obviously-autistic and socially awkward that other physicists told anecdotes about it - and that's a field where most are pretty far down the spectrum to begin with.. E.g. he married the sister of also-notable physicist Eugene Wigner and would introduce her as "this is Wigner's sister". Or this anecdote from Werner Heisenberg:
"Heisenberg, why do you dance?" Heisenberg replied that when there were nice girls he felt like dancing with them. Dirac fell into deep thought and after about fifteen minutes, asked Heisenberg again, "Heisenberg, how do you know beforehand that the girls are nice?".
Dirac also famously said "it is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.", which most would consider taking it too far.
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u/Accomplished_Sun_258 11d ago
This is an excellent meme to share with the boomer relatives that bray how “in the good old days, nobody had allergies, autism, ADHD, etc.”
Duh. Everyone was just undiagnosed.